SEAT BELT FEEDBACK
I was reading the December 2017 issue of Aviation Consumer and noticed that there were two areas you covered that didn’t jibe with my experience. First, seat belt re-webbing.
You imply that re-webbing a seat belt is simple and cheap. My experience is that it can be far from so. For newer (1997 and beyond) Cessna aircraft, the seat belts are “dynamically certified.” This apparently means that it is quite hard to find a place that will re-web them (none of the vendors mentioned in your article will). I got a quote of $2147.30 per belt the last time I asked about this a couple of years ago. Insane. Is this only a problem with newer Cessnas, or does it apply to all newer aircraft?